"Gay is Unnatural"

Of all the arguments against homosexuality its supposed unnaturality is the most idiotic. Who is to say what is “natural”? If it can be done, it has to be natural. That is the definition of “natural.” Why is it that when homophobes want to put gays down, they call being gay “unnatural,” yet they insist that gays can “change” since being gay is a matter solely of nurture? The only possible answer is that the homophobes excuse their fear by reference to scripture. Nothing's right or wrong but thinking makes it so. God condemns homosexuality in Leviticus but has no problem with Lot impregnating his own daughters after the destruction of the Cities on the Plain.

Now what we need is this same attitude, on a prime-time TV show (preferably a comedy - liable to have more impact) wherein some right-thinking, right-wing homophobic hotshot gets the pins utterly knocked out from under him/her ... by a straight or gay person, I don't know that it matters. What it needs to be though is a first-class bitch-slapping which takes no prisoners and leaves no doubt.

Well, the effeminate gay male and butch lesbian are both stereotypes dreamed up by these bigots based upon their limited exposure to gays and lesbians, rumor, urban legend, and nocturnal nightmares (gays and lesbians as incubi and succubi and vice-versa: Jewish myth actually taught that Adam's first wife and the devil Samael would steal male babies in the dead of night). If most of them got to know gay couples they would see that they have more in common with them than differences. But the stereotypes are also bigots' means of marginalizing minorities, the same response they had to Kinsey's finding that at any given time, as many as 10% of the population is gay. Those who believe being gay is a choice claim the actual number is 3%, but they obviously forgot to count the Larry ("I have a wide stance") Craig types who cannot admit they're gay. As the Buddhists say, categories are inherently problematic.

Though they may not be typical, they (cross gender styles) EXIST. I don't think Gays and Lesbians should be supportive of gender bias. We should be above that. We should not be marginalizing feminine men or masculine women because we think they are bad for public relations. I'M FOR THE RIGHT TO BE DIFFERENT, not just gay and "normal"! "As the Buddhists say, categories are inherently problematic." Yes. Remember that. It shouldn't matter when we consider people for their character, dignity and humanity. PS. I've known a few drag queens in my time who were great people and I never felt embarrassed by them! - Gary

I can't stand it when homos can't get past gender bias. In my book, sissy fags are the heros. They take the brunt of abuse so the rest of us don't have to, and they are just being themselves. That takes courage.